Quote by John Burroughs
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast t

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs

Other quotes by John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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Thinking of You
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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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Earth
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alone
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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alone

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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alone

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. – Sergei Bubka

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alone

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. – Annie Dillard

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alone

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Friends are thieves of time. – Francis Bacon

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Time

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. – Mario Batali

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Forgiveness

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. – Stockwell Day

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History

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. – Thomas Jefferson

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God